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I think Putin genuinely thought he was kicking off USSR 2, and that the decadent West was too divided and confused to stop him after two decades of his Loki-esque fuckery.
Unfortunately for him, he seems to have been poorly informed about the Russian and Ukranian armed forces’ relative abilities, NATO/‘the West’s willingness to stand up to him, and Ukrainian farmers’ yen for retro-Soviet lawn ornaments. Even worse, he seems not to have told any of his underlings that he wasn’t bluffing, and therefore nobody told him that an invasion would be disastrous.
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I can't remember the link I was reading but there's a credible line of thought that it's all about trying to reduce the USA's influence in the rest of the world. Invading to partially show how strong Russia is and scare smaller countries in to line and partially to cause division between NATO countries, greating a Greater Russia in the process is a nice side effect. Obviously that hasn't really worked so far.
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Esra Kleine
https://open.spotify.com/show/3oB5noYIwEB2dMAREj2F7S?si=yeQ8gxHURdqcIuZZQKlGSg&utm_source=copy-linkis really good on this with his recent interviews.
The tl;dr is that we in the west make the mistake of viewing this through a geopolitical lense as it is what we are comfortable with.
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My understanding of politics/geo-politics is basic at best and usually follows what I see as logic/common sense. What on Earth can Russia possibly gain from this position (financial? Reputation? Influence (again for what?). Surely, if it's territory to exploit natural resources, this will pale into significance when considering the current financial losses and given decades of international sanctions they will be hit with. Is it simply one man's megalomaniacal dick-swinging or is there another belief different to mine that will give the Russian state/population tangible or even intangible benefit? Again, appreciate I might be completely naive, possibly insensitive but usually 'baddies' have a motive of some sort regardless of how frowned upon it is by others.